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58<h1>Security</h1>
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60<p>This page describes some "best practices" regarding web security, and details
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64<h2>URI Security</h2>
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66<p>CodeIgniter is fairly restrictive regarding which characters it allows in your URI strings in order to help
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Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]79<h2>Register_globals</h2>
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Eric Barnes25d495b2011-04-26 23:02:44 -0400[diff] [blame]81<p>During system initialization all global variables are unset, except those found in the $_GET, $_POST, and $_COOKIE arrays. The unsetting
Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]82routine is effectively the same as register_globals = off.</p>
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katzgraue8f58902011-03-10 10:24:29 -0500[diff] [blame]84<a name="error_reporting"></a>
85<h2>error_reporting</h2>
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Derek Jones4b9c6292011-07-01 17:40:48 -0500[diff] [blame]88 In production environments, it is typically desirable to disable PHP's
89 error reporting by setting the internal error_reporting flag to a value of 0. This disables native PHP
90 errors from being rendered as output, which may potentially contain
91 sensitive information.
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Derek Jones4b9c6292011-07-01 17:40:48 -0500[diff] [blame]95 Setting CodeIgniter's <kbd>ENVIRONMENT</kbd> constant in index.php to a
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102<h2>magic_quotes_runtime</h2>
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104<p>The magic_quotes_runtime directive is turned off during system initialization so that you don't have to remove slashes when
105retrieving data from your database.</p>
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107<h1>Best Practices</h1>
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109<p>Before accepting any data into your application, whether it be POST data from a form submission, COOKIE data, URI data,
110XML-RPC data, or even data from the SERVER array, you are encouraged to practice this three step approach:</p>
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113<li>Filter the data as if it were tainted.</li>
Derek Jones4b9c6292011-07-01 17:40:48 -0500[diff] [blame]114<li>Validate the data to ensure it conforms to the correct type, length, size, etc. (sometimes this step can replace step one)</li>
Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]115<li>Escape the data before submitting it into your database.</li>
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118<p>CodeIgniter provides the following functions to assist in this process:</p>
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122<li><h2>XSS Filtering</h2>
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Derek Jones4b9c6292011-07-01 17:40:48 -0500[diff] [blame]124<p>CodeIgniter comes with a Cross Site Scripting filter. This filter looks for commonly
Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]125used techniques to embed malicious Javascript into your data, or other types of code that attempt to hijack cookies
Derek Jones9898b892010-03-10 14:04:17 -0600[diff] [blame]126or do other malicious things. The XSS Filter is described <a href="../libraries/security.html">here</a>.
Derek Allard2067d1a2008-11-13 22:59:24 +0000[diff] [blame]127</p>
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130<li><h2>Validate the data</h2>
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132<p>CodeIgniter has a <a href="../libraries/form_validation.html">Form Validation Class</a> that assists you in validating, filtering, and prepping
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136<li><h2>Escape all data before database insertion</h2>
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138<p>Never insert information into your database without escaping it. Please see the section that discusses
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